Crumb Apple Pie {A Recipe Re-do Blog Hop}

So this is a recipe re-do. I made it in the first few months of this blog. And, well, I'm not proud of how the post looks. When Ashton mentioned doing a re-do post and making it a blog hop, I knew immediately that I was going to re-make this pie.

You see, this pie is special. One, my husband loves it. He cannot turn it down (and ate two slices of it).

And two, it's the pie that inspired the blog name. Because we love the crust and the crumb of this pie more than the apple filling and one night, chowing down, the idea for a crust-loving store/site/something was born.

And now, here I am, a few years later, working on that dream.

So this pie needed a new place here on this site. Badly.

Plus, it's always good to re-do some things in life. What would you re-do, if you could?

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Peanut Butter Caramel Apple Dip

My cat snores. Loudly.

The other morning I was awakened from a sound, dream-filled sleep to what sounded like someone screaming in my ear. I thought Jordan was having a nightmare. She wasn't.

What makes it even more special is that kitty likes to sleep in the corner of the bed...behind my head.

Every time I hear her snoring like a truck driver I wonder how such a sound comes out of a nine-pound animal. I want to record her so bad but she has a knack for her loudness at 3am, and I'm just not ready for video recording at that time of night.

This really has nothing to do with this dip, except that this dip is just slightly more amazing than her snoring.

It's peanut butter. And caramel. Oh, and some chocolate chips. Can't forget the chocolate!

It's good with apples. Or pretzels. Or on a spoon.

Peanut Butter Caramel Apple Dip

Ingredients:

1 bag caramel squares (about 45), unwrapped

1/3 cup whipping cream and 1/3 cup nonfat milk OR 2/3 cup half and half

½ cup creamy peanut butter

1/3 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions:

1.       Add the caramels and whipping cream/milk or half and half to a medium saucepan. Heat over low heat and stir until the caramels have melted into the cream (about 8-10 minutes).

2.       Meanwhile, add peanut butter and chocolate chips to a medium microwave safe bowl. Heat for 30-45 seconds and stir to combine.

3.       Add hot caramel mixture to the peanut butter mixture and stir to combine. Serve with apple slices, graham crackers and/or pretzels. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.

Yield: about 2 cups of dip

Enjoy!

This recipe may be linked with:

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